NVidia is currently in a difficult position. On one side, the new GPU from ATI/AMD actively competes its leadership in the field. On the other side, Intel is working and acting in order to make NVidia's life as difficult as possible for both the forthcoming GPGPU market, as well as for chipset market, refusing to license its Nehalem technology to NVidia. If the success of the GeForce 9400M was a positive point for NVidia to increase its portfolio of products it for sure did not help to cool down its relationship with Intel. In addition, Intel and AMD are not really happy to see NVidia CUDA being developed and promoted as it is currently done..In the meantime, some rumors indicate that Nvidia might be willing to develop x86 processors. A new information released by Digitimes support this hypothesis. NVidia might could take parts of VIA (in its capital for the time being). VIA is a x86 CPU designer/manuf
